Welcome to National Poetry Month

I’ve been doing National Poetry Month events on the blog for several years from writing a poem a day to posting about new poets, but this year, I thought it was time to step it up a notch!

So I’ve corralled some great blogger buddies and poets to contribute in the first ever National Poetry Month Blog Tour. Monica at Monniblog created some great buttons for the occasion, and you’ll see some variation of them throughout the month-long tour.

You’re probably asking yourself, what will I find on this tour. Never fear, I will be posting a schedule of blogs, their dates, and their topics for you. But first I want to let you know that you too can read poetry, enjoy the places it takes you, and share it with friends and family. Like fiction or nonfiction, poetry just requires some exploration to find the poetry that speaks to you.

Nikki Giovanni says, “I’ve never ‘blogged’ before so this is new territory for me. I do poetry though and that is always somewhere in the netherland. I think poetry is employed by truth. I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it. Don’t you just hate a namby-pamby poem? That goes all over the place saying nothing. Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words. That might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love. Poetry is garlic. Not for everyone but those who take it never get caught by werewolves.”

Hopefully, this blog tour will express the variety of poetry available and you will find poets and poetry that you connect with. If not, that’s OK too, but maybe we can’t be friends (LOL).

At the end of the month, I am going to post a poll for you to decide which posts you enjoyed most, and the top three bloggers — and maybe more, depending on the donations — will receive a prize for participating. Never fear, there will be prizes for readers as well.

Here on Savvy, I’ll be showcasing a variety of contemporary poets, the Virtual Poetry Circles will continue as scheduled, but there will be a few other fiction and nonfiction books featured for pre-scheduled tours.

OK, lets get to the National Poetry Month 2010 Blog Tour Schedule (I’m so happy with the turnout):

April 27: Jen’s Book Thoughts follows up with more poems of Reed Farrel Coleman; Linus’s Blanket will talk about her experience reading poetry, Reb Livingston’s Your Ten Favorite Words, for That’s How I Blog show with yours truly.

April 30:Brimful Curiosities will feature read aloud poetry: Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young collected by Jack Prelutsky, All Kinds Of Families by Mary Ann Hoberman, The Wonder Book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal; Diary of an Eccentric‘s The Girl talks about Shel Silverstein and his books

Thanks in advance to everyone who is participating!

Here’s the Mr. Linky to post your full link from the tour. If you want to hop on the tour and post about poetry during the month and snag a button, you’re more than welcome to add your links too!

We had such fun participating this year. You’ve opened up a whole new world for us! Such a great idea to host a blog tour to celebrate National Poetry month.
.-= Janelle @ Brimful Curiosities´s last blog ..Read Aloud Poetry – National Poetry Month Blog Tour =-.

I’m distressed that the poet I featured left a nasty comment this morning insulting everyone who had commented. Next topic after national poetry month will be elitism.
.-= Jeanne´s last blog ..Some Questions You Might Ask =-.

You are always the first blog I think of when it comes to poetry so I knew you would be doing something special for this month. I will link to this post when I do my FreeVerse posts this month. I think I’m too late to help you out in any other way due to my vacation. Long live poetry!
.-= Jenners´s last blog ..Show Me 5 Saturday: "Whacked" by Jules Asner =-.

I hope it’s okay – I just jumped aboard with a link to my post for the last Poetry Friday Roundup – it is full of such rich pickings! And I profiled Canadian Métis poet, David Bouchard’s stunning new book of his poem The Secret of Your Name…
.-= Marjorie (PaperTigers)´s last blog ..The newest thing in children’s books……augmented reality technology =-.